{"id":2057,"date":"2008-09-13T15:34:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2008-09-13T15:34:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T15:34:27","slug":"meanwhile_in_ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2057","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, In China…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Big Picture blog is running some stunning photos taken at the Beijing Paralympics<\/a>. If the pictures are any indication, the opening ceremonies were nearly as elaborate as those for the Olympics and they attracted a large crowd. The last photo in the series, an Irish athlete exulting in his bronze medal victory, is particularly moving. And check out the pictures of the wheelchair racer wiping out on the track. <\/p>\n

The drama and athleticism displayed in these pictures cries out for television coverage, but we Americans will have to settle for watching it on our computer screens courtesy of Universal Sports<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Big Picture blog is running some stunning photos taken at the Beijing Paralympics. If the pictures are any indication, the opening ceremonies were nearly as elaborate as those for the Olympics and they attracted a large crowd. The last photo in the series, an Irish athlete exulting in his bronze medal victory, is particularly […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-xb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}